Improvement in garden-plows



IUNTTnn STATES PATENT Ottica,

VASHINGTON F. PAGETT AND SILAS H. GARD, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN GARDEN-Hows.

Speciliralion forming part of Letters Patent No. QLJBL dated August 3l,15h39.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, IV. F. PAGETT and S. H. GARD, of Springfield, inthe county of Clark and State ot' Ohio, have invented a new and ImprovedGarden-Plow; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact descriptionv ofthe construction and operation ofthesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partoi' this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view showing theleft side. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the right side. Fig. 3 is asection through line x c ot' Fig. 2.

The object of this invention is to provide for public use a simple andeasily-adjustable instrument to be propelled byhand, which shall answerthe purpose of a garden plow or scraper.

In the drawings, H Hindicate the handles or ribs, they being attached toa cross-bar, I, at the top ot' an inclined beam, A.

IJ is the shovel fastened by screw-bolts or other adequate means upon acastiron foundation, C, near its lower end.

\V is a wheel connected to foundation Cby an arm, E, pivoted at e, andmade verticallyadjustable by means of a curved slot, e, inthe end oi`the arm, and a screw-nut, n, on a bolt, d, passing through thefoundation-plate, as shown in Fig. l.

D is a scraper attached to the foundation by the transverse bolt d, andcapable of being vertically adjusted by a screw-nut, n', on the side ofthe plate C, oppositie to that on which the nut n works. The part A ispivotcd to the part C by means of the bolt d and a guard or chater, F,which holds said part A by having its edges bent over the edges thereof,and by means of the bolt d and a bolt, h, shown in Fig. 2. The upper endof the foundation-plate is formed into the segment of a circle, notchedor corrugated along its lateral edge, as shown at m, Fig. l.

II is a hook or clamp on the left end of bolt 7i, fitting into thenotches on` m, and capable of being clamped, so as to hold the part Cfirmly in position by tightening the nut of on the right side of thebeam, its object being to enable the parts AC to be adjusted indifferent positions with relation to each other, and to be fixed in anydesired position. The wheel It runs on a round spindle, s, the inner endof which, at t, is square and tits into a square or oblong gain in theside of the part c, shown in Fig. 3,

so that the spindle cannot turn with the wheel. A bolt, i, extendsthrough the spindle, and is provided at one end with a head, i', and atthe other with a screw-nut, i, between which and the right side of wheelR is a washer, i. The bolt passes through a vertical slot, r, in lug c,so that the wheel can be adjusted higher or lower by clamping itsspindle in different positions by means of the nut The wheel XV may alsobe adjusted in different positions in the arm E, a slot, a, being madefor that purpose.

Ve do not limit ourselves to any particular size of the above-dcscribedparts, nor to any particular material in constructing them. In general,however, it will be better to make the parts A I H, &c., of wood, andthe parts F C D P of iron, the parts I R being of either material, atpleasure. rI`he part C will also preferably be made about nine incheslong by one-fourth inch thick, varied, however, to suit differentattachments, a eountersink be ing made to receive the upper end of plowI), and a portion of it (shown at v /v c o o) being cast thicker thanthe rest, in order to give it proper strength, and to give at the sametime an adequate support to the other parts. The arm E may be bentoutward laterally, at a point nearly opposite the upper end of the plow,so as to hold the wheel XV off to the left of the plow. Then thus made,by simply turning the arm over and fastening it with its other side nextto the part C, the wheel can be adjusted so as to travel directlyinfront of the center of the plow; and, still further, by taking oft' thearm and fastening it on the right side of the foundation instead of theleft, as before, the wheel can be thrown to the right of the plow, thissimple expedient enabling the wheel to be thus adjusted in any position,at pleasure.

The wheel R is preferably about live inches in diameter, and the wheel Wabout eighteen inches. The plow l) is about eight inches long by fromtwo and one-half to four inches wide, and of the usual curve. Thescraper D is from three to five inches long and one-sixteenth ot' aninch thick; the beam A, about four feet long; the cross-bar I,abouttwentytwo inches, and the chater F about tive inches.

Having thus described our invent-ion, what we claim as new, and desi reto secure by Letters Patent, is-

constructed as described, and as specifically shown in Fig. 3, and forthe purposeset forth.

WASHINGTON F. PAGE/FT. SILAS H. GARD.

Witnesses to the signature of W. F. Pagett:

E. B. HINTON, SENSEMAN. Witnesses to the signature of S. H. Gard:

O. A. PETTIT, S. C. KEMON.

